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June 16, 2010

G67: Red Sox 6, Diamondbacks 2

Lester: 7-4-2-3-7, 103. Three of the four hits he allowed came in the second inning. After that, Lester allowed only one hit over his last 21 batters (5.2 innings) faced. There were three walks and a HBP within that 21-batter stretch, but the only threat came in the fourth, when Arizona (trailing 4-2) had the bases loaded and one out. Lester struck out Rusty Ryal and got Chris Snyder to fly to center.

Dustin Pedroia hit a two-run home run in the first. He also singled and stole second to begin the third. David Ortiz followed that with a walk and, with two outs, J.D. Drew's double scored FY and Adrian Beltre's second single of the night brought home Flo. Kevin Youkilis jacked a two-run dong in the seventh (Ortiz was aboard).

Marco Scutaro singled twice, Ortiz walked twice and singled. FWIW, Victor Martinez had three fly outs to the warning track. (Also, FWIW, Mark Grace, the "analyst" on the D'backs' FSN affiliate, is a Sutcliffian* moron. His stupidity is actually scary.)

* I think I just invented a useful word.

Daniel Bard had an easy eighth, but Ramon Ramirez allowed a walk and a single to start the Snakes' ninth. Ram2 got two fly outs from the 8/9 hitters before Tito handed the ball to Jonathan Papelbon, who retired Kelly Johnson on a fly to Darnell McDonald in left.

It was Arizona's 12th straight road loss -- a new franchise record.

The Rays lost 6-2 and the Yankees lost 6-3 (Burnett: 3.1-6-6-4-3, 87), so the Red Sox are now 3 GB.

June 16, 1938: Jimmie Foxx of the Red Sox is walked intentionally by the Browns in all six of his plate appearances. It is an American League record for a nine-inning game and ties the NL mark set by Walt Wilmot of the Chicago Colts on August 22, 1891. (The post-1900 NL record is five, held by many players.)

i think mark garce is the color guy. he just said he did not realize lester could throw 96. ... well, lester is pretty new to the big leagues and he has never faced a NL team in a high profile situation like a world series. so it's understandable.

Amy, if you want, fwd the email to me. I can look at it if you want. B/c usually Google, Gmail, Blogger, etc. don't contact anyone. The most you can do is post to their user groups and a volunteer might answer your q.

"Please note that we aren't able to provide you with information about attempted logins to your account including, but not limited to, the IP address from which the attempted login was made, and the time and date attempted logins occurred."

Google may not contact people directly but for all sorts of reasons having to do with perceived or possible TOS violations, they do lock up accounts. I know, because it happened to me a few days ago--and I swear I wasn't sending out 5 million emails about vi*gra or promising anyone a big payday if they would only wire me a little earnest money.

Google did give me several ways to restore service, but for a few hours I was really really hating life--a lot of my school/work stuff is totally tied to google/blogger.

Thanks, Allan, for the link. Damn it!! I have now changed my password, security question, recovery options, etc. But what if they now have this password and access other accounts? I guess I'd better be pretty vigilant.

And yeah, if you get spam from me, please let me know!

I had changed my Facebook password a while back because someone hacked that account.

Easier said than done. I have more accounts than I can remember! As I use them, I can do that, but who even has a list of every place that asks for a password? Every website I subscribe to or shop on? I have no idea.

Thanks, everyone. Fortunately, I do not have credit card information or banking information on line with that password as Harvey deals with all that (thank goodness!). I changed Amazon and Ebay and for now, that's all I will do. But a piece of paper! What a novel idea. But what happens when I can't find the piece of paper?

I don't want to pay for internet at the hotel, so we're watching the game on our phones and I'm in the lobby to join the discussion here. (The internet lobby is too slow to get the game on the computer.)

at my 1918 email address, which i don't use except for some old mailing list things, i get a lot of emails from "paypal" saying my account has been suspended and i need to login and do stuff to unlock it. obviously, those are scams.